thisishangingrockcomics:

I don’t really know enough about the movement to have a valid opinion but from the little that I do know and have observed it’s all pretty sad. My problem with pro-ana and thinspo blogs is that the motivation is to be THIN, not healthy. And the blogs that are dedicated to genuine health tips, I mean more power to them. But to the ones that encourage torturing your body and damaging your self esteem to become thin? That’s sad and so unhealthy.

I don’t think it’s ok to make eating disorders seem glamorous or acceptable for the sake of losing weight. They are real and fucking terrible and really really hard. So to offer anorexia as a substitute for proper diet and activity? That’s dumb in my opinion, and damaging. That being said I don’t agree with the assumption that all very thin girls are anorexic, just like not all heavier girls are unhealthy. At the end of the day it’s your body and you’re going to do what you want to it, but I don’t see the good coming from the pro-ana movement.

Sometimes I hear girls rationalize by saying “I’m starving myself to become perfect” but oh my word, thin ≠ perfect. So again, I don’t know a whole lot about “pro-ana” but what I see I do not personally agree with.